124 ME. smith's DESCniPTIONS OF HTMENOPTEROUS INSECTS 



tibiae clothed with golden pubescence outside ; wings fulvo-hyaline, 

 the nervures black. Abdomen : the apical margins of the segments 

 with fasciae of silvery pile. 

 Hab. Bachian. 



The specimen described is one that had been long exposed when taken, 

 the wings being ragged and most of the golden pubescence rubbed off. 



4. Larrada tarsata. L. nigi-a, antennis, mandibulis pedibusque 

 rufis ; alis fuscis. 



Female. Length 74 hnes. Black ; the face with golden pubescence, 

 the antennae, mandibles, palpi, and legs ferruginous ; the coxae, tro- 

 chanters, and three apical joints of the tarsi black ; the five apical 

 joints of the flagellum fuscous above ; the spines on the tibiae and 

 tarsi black ; wings fuscous, the posterior pair palest. Abdomen 

 shining. 



Hab. Bachian. 



I suspect this insect, if in fine condition, would have a pale golden 

 pubescence on the thorax, and that the abdomen would have silvery pile on 

 the apical margins of the segments. 



Gen. Tachttes, Panz. 



1. Tachytes sedulus. T. niger; abdominis segmentorum mar- 

 ginibus argentatis. 



Female. Length 6 lines. Black ; the face covered with silvery pile 

 and sprinkled with long white hairs, the cheeks having also a silvery 

 pile ; the mandibles ferruginous, their apex piceous. Thorax closely 

 and finely punctured, the collar and tubercles silvery ; the wings hya- 

 line, their nervures testaceous ; tiie costse and tegulae piceous ; the 

 tibiae and tarsi with rufo-testaceous spines ; the metathorax thinly 

 clothed with cinereous pubescence. Abdomen shining, with a blue 

 iridescence in certain lights ; the apical margins of the segments with 

 interrupted silvery fasciae. 



Hab. Kaisaa. 



Gen. Laeea, Fahr. 



\. Larra modesta. L. nigra; abdomine pulchre prismatico, maculis 

 fasciisque variis flavis omato. 



Female. Length 3| lines. Black ; a silvery-white pubescence on the 

 face and clypeus, that on the vertex tawny ; an abbreviated white line 

 on the inner orbit of the eyes, which curves round beneath the inser- 

 tion of each antenna, the scape white in front, the flagellum fulvous 

 beneath. Thorax slightly shining; a narrow line on the collar, the 

 tubercles, a spot in front on the tegulae, and an interrupted line behind 

 them, which runs down the side and along the base of the scutellum 

 yellow ; a line on the anterior and intermediate femora beneath, the 

 anterior tibia; in front, the intermediate and posterior pair at their 



